Writing Off the Hyphen: New Critical Perspectives on the Literature of the Puerto Rican DiasporaJose L. Torres-Padilla, Carmen Haydee Rivera The sixteen essays in Writing Off the Hyphen approach the literature of the Puerto Rican diaspora from current theoretical positions, with provocative and insightful results. The authors analyze how the diasporic experience of Puerto Ricans is played out in the context of class, race, gender, and sexuality and how other themes emerging from postcolonialism and postmodernism come into play. Their critical work also demonstrates an understanding of how the process of migration and the relations between Puerto Rico and the United States complicate notions of cultural and national identity as writers confront their bilingual, bicultural, and transnational realities. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 30
... Jesús Colón is another important writer who charts the history of struggle, solidarity, and cultural unity of the early working-class Puerto Rican migrants. His work, A Puerto Rican in New York and Other Sketches (1961), much like ...
... Jesús Colón's stylistic use of language in their works, Thomas brings forth an explosion of idiomatic expressions and unconventional syntax. His writing is characterized by the use of slang, cursing, and code switching between English ...
... Jesús Colón, Pura Belpré, and Graciany Miranda Archilla. Torres-Padilla shows how the production of ethnic signs in these texts demonstrates that each writer has a different view of, and rhetorical purpose for, Puerto Rican ethnicity ...
... Jesús Colón, A Puerto Rican in New York and Other Sketches, 2d ed. (New York: International Publishers, 1982) (originally published 1961). 10. Pedro Juan Labarthe, The Son of Two Nations: The Private Life of a Columbia Student (New York ...
... Jesús. A Puerto Rican in New York and Other Sketches. 2d ed. New York: International Publishers, 1982. (Originally published 1961.) Cotto-Thorner, Guillermo. Trópico en Manhattan. San Juan: Editorial Cordillera, 1960. Dávila, Arlene M ...
Contents
1 | |
29 | |
Political and Historical | 105 |
Identity and Place | 163 |
Home | 237 |
Gender | 293 |
Contributors | 351 |
Index | 355 |